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May 24, 2017

Developer Burnout

Anyone who writes software for the love of it knows, or will eventually know, burnout. Writing code is mentally taxing work…

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Oct 30, 2018

How to Calculate Bitcoin’s Future Energy Use

There’s some misunderstanding around how the electricity use of Bitcoin is…

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May 16, 2017

The Open Source Funding Problem

The world is built on the shoulders of Open Source software. If you look at any tech startup out there…

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Jun 9, 2017

Creating Innovation

Alan Kay is a computer scientist and polymath best known for his work at Xerox PARC. I recently watched an inspiring talk he gave for startup school that discusses the environment required for creating innovations.

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Jun 1, 2017

Sustainable Open Source

From talking to many people over the last few months about Open Source (who are not software developers) it was…

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Aug 20, 2018

Bitcoin’s Electricity use is Not a Problem

As someone who cares deeply about climate change and efficiency, the fact that so much energy is being spent mining for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes me pause. However on deeper inspection the energy used by bitcoin in particular is not the…

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Oct 7, 2017

Open Source Funding Blockchain

Blockchains are the becoming relevant in the world of finance and spreading into many more areas as the core ideas get expanded upon. The value of a global decentralized peer-to-peer currency is immediately obvious to anyone who has tried to purchase from, or sell to people…

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Oct 2, 2018

Bitcoin’s Big Problem

There is a problem that is getting overlooked in the grand visions of a crypto-currency fuelled future of peer-to-peer payments. One that has put a wrench in adoption and that few people are addressing.

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Jul 8, 2017

You Probably Haven’t Given Enough To Open Source This Year

The world runs on open source software built and maintained by volunteers. The body of work given away as free software represents billions of dollars worth of donated man hours. This work ultimately comes from men and women who…

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Sep 12, 2018

A Distributed Alternative to Basic Income

By now, we are all familiar with the concept of Basic Income. The need for a basic income is borne out of an inability to imagine a future that is dramatically different from the one we are in today. In today’s world we have one full-time job (or perhaps 2…

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